2 CD Set - Including a 32-page booklet with the full libretto

... a strong cast ... this is an admirable full-blooded performance.
Calum MacDonald, BBC Music Magazine, September 2011

A Tristan opera by a composer who aspired to be an English Wagner'.
Editor's Choice, Gramophone, September 2011

... clothed in gorgeous orchestration ...
Jeremy Dibble, Gramophone, September 2011

Ronald Corp ... brings full-blooded playing from the orchestra as is fitting but also draws quieter response in intimate scenes.

Collectors of English music should be interested in this release ...

International Record Review, January 2011

Rutland Boughton

The Queen of Cornwall (1923-24)
A music-drama based on the play by Thomas Hardy

Act 1
Chorus of Shades of Dead Old Cornish Men and Women
Where is the Queen?
No foot, I swear, set I in Brittany
Why did Heav'n warrant in its whim?
How little he knows
I dream that the dearest I ever knew had died
Could he but live for me a day
Maybe indeed he did not die
When I set out for Lyonesse
O, the opal and the sapphire
Let's meet again tonight, my fair

Act 2
Prelude
A ship sheers round, and brings up in the bay
I saw them coming down to learn my errand
So, after all, am I to share you
If it's ever spring again
Yea, love, true is it sadness suits me best
O murderer
No sight nor sound of her
Indulge no more may we in that sweet bitter pastime
Chorus of Shades of Dead Old Cornish Men and Women

New London Orchestra
Members of The London Chorus
Ronald Corp (conductor)

Philip Tebb (Watchman)
Patricia Orr (Brangwain)
Neal Davies (King Mark)
Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult)
Peter Wilman (Sir Andret)
Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristram)
Joan Rodgers CBE (Iseult of Brittany, the Whitehanded)
Elizabeth Weisberg (Damsel)

World premiere recording

Recorded at St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 8-10 July 2010

2 CDSET - 2CDLX 7256